Background
He is the son of Jozef Staelens.
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Gerdi Staelens
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Career
Together with January Vandenbosch, he founded the Belgian software company Winking, where he is Chief Executive Officer. He is responsible for Winkin" 1.0, the first administrative software package in Belgium running on Windows 3.0, presented at the Bureau "91 fair (18-25 September 1991). In May 1992 a version for Windows 3.1x was presented with the presence of Microsoft.
He is also the creator of Print&Share.
From January 2000 till December 2002, he was chairman at Bachelor of Arts.S.A. (Belgian Accounting Software Association), a branch organisation of independent software vendors of financial software. In 2008 as Chief Executive Officer of Winking he was part of an economic business trip to Seattle and Vancouver devised by the Agency for foreign trade in close cooperation with Flanders Investment and Trade, Awax and Brussels Export together with His Royal Highness Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant.
He is also vice-president at Spaenhiers vzw, an archaeological historical society. In 2010 he was awarded for "Krak van het jaar" (= special person of the year) in Koekelare by the newspaper Krant van West-Vlaanderen.
